The Weeknd has begun teasing new album ‘unprepared certainty’.
Abel Tesfaye has been working on the record for some time now, sharing a handful of details online. The Weeknd’s previous album ‘Dawn FM’ landed back in 2022, a project that thrived on immediacy. In our review at the time, CLASH wrote:
After mind-boggling critical and commercial success that most artists dream of, The Weeknd has delivered ‘Dawn FM’ (2022), the purgatorial sequel to ‘After Hours’. The question remains: where can an artist go when he’s already seemingly reached his peak? ‘Dawn FM’ (2022) shows us The Weeknd stuck in limbo, with nowhere else but his thoughts and a lonely radio soundtracking his memories.
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Chatting to fans on Twitter / x, the Canadian artist queried: “[I] wonder… did you know you’re experiencing a new trilogy?”
Now it seems a new part of this triptych of incoming. A clip went live overnight, with a sound that harks back to the enigma of his opening era.
Check out the clip below.
Fans have – predictably – gone wild for the clip, with one account writing:
Titled ‘unprepared certainty’ it comes as The Weeknd builds towards a one-off show in the Brazilian city of São Paulo on September 7th.
